North Andover, MA 3rd Alarm - 2nd St IAO Waverly Rd - 4/4/14

Early in the afternoon, North Andover Fire was alerted to a possible house fire in the area of Waverly Rd by 2nd St.

Where the home was located not far from NAFD HQ on Main St, companies observed a heavy smoke condition in that area as the pulled out of the station. A second alarm was transmitted while companies were still enroute. The first companies arrived to find heavy, overlapping fire on the first and second floor front porches extending up into a third floor living space. An aggressive exterior attack with outside lines, a deck gun and Ladder 1's aerial ladder pipe was used to knock down the heavy fire on the outside. A third alarm was eventually transmitted bringing in extra manpower from surrounding communities including Lawrence, Middleton and Haverhill.

It took about 30 minutes to knock down the heavy fire on the outside before companies stretched lines into the interior to douce hot spots and overhaul the house.

Mutual aid coverage from Georgetown covered the Main St station while the N Andover companies were tied up.

I arrived after the heavy fire had been knocked down, so most of these photos are of the overhaul and mop up. Great job NAFD!!